High School

The boys’ tennis teams of Grayson County and Galax continued on their collision course for a big Mountain Empire District showdown this week as the two teams remained undefeated after last week’s action.

Galax (9-0) defeated Radford for the first time in nine years last Monday, winning several close matches to slip by with the 5-4 win while Grayson County posted a pair of 9-0 shutouts and a 7-2 win over Glenvar.

HILLSVILLE –– Tiffanie Moore’s RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning last Friday night led the Carroll County Cavaliers to a hard-fought come-from-behind 7-6 victory over Cave Spring in River Ridge District softball game played in Hillsville.

The unbeaten Cavaliers (11-0) battled from behind three different times before they finally put the game away in extra innings, answering a three-run Cave Spring eighth-inning rally by scoring four in the bottom of the frame.

ROANOKE –– A leadoff double and two pitches to the backstop accounted for all the offense Carroll County would need Monday as the Cavaliers notched a huge 1-0 River Ridge District softball win at Cave Spring.

Carroll County (7-0 overall, 2-3 RRD) led off the game with a Tiffanie Moore double to right center, and two wild pitches later the Cavaliers had scored the only run the game would produce.

INDEPENDENCE –– Cell phone conversations among the spectators notwithstanding, folks in and around the Galax-Grayson County softball game probably had little idea what was going on among their baseball counterparts on the other side of the parking lot Friday. They need only pay attention to their own game to get a pretty good idea.

FLOYD –– Grayson County owed Floyd County some measure of retribution after a 3-2 loss March 23 in Independence. The Blue Devils squared the account on Wednesday but now owe the Buffaloes a half a box of softballs.

Keeping with the sportsmanlike custom of giving the ball to a player who hits a home run, Grayson County kids took four well-mashed, neon yellow Worths home with them Wednesday after the Blue Devils powered to a 9-2 win in a nondistrict game at Floyd County High School.